Labor productivity in Europe: Evidence from a sample of regions

Lionel Artige () and Rosella Nicolini

UFAE and IAE Working Papers from Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica (UAB) and Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica (CSIC)

Abstract: The present paper aims at analyzing the sources of productivity in Europe to account for its recent underperformance and identify potential geographic idiosyncracies. We study the productivity performance and its sources in a sample of ten European regions belonging to four countries (France, Germany, Italy and Spain). Exploiting the increasing availability of disaggregated data at regional level in Europe, we propose both a descriptive statistics and an econometric analysis of productivity sources since 1995. Our main finding is that the sources of labor productivity are rather heterogeneous across our sample but may be associated with regional or national idiosyncracies.

Keywords: Labor productivity; productivity determinants; European regions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 O11 O18 O52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25
Date: 2006-03-30
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Working Paper: Labor Productivity in Europe: Evidence from a Sample of Regions (2006)
Working Paper: Labor productivity in Europe: Evidence from a sample of regions (2006)
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